LOLA - LOW LATENCY AUDIO VISUAL STREAMING SYSTEM
LOW LATENCY, HIGH QUALITY AUDIO/VIDEO TRANSMISSION SYSTEM FOR NETWORK MUSICAL PERFORMANCES AND INTERACTION
LOLA project aims to enable real time musical performances where musicians are physically located in
remote sites, connected by advanced network services, like the ones provided by the NRENs and GEANT and
other International backbones.
The project motivation comes directly from musicians who are currently engaged into many geographically
distributed activities (Concerts, MasterClasses, Teaching, Recording Sessions, etc.) which require them
a lot of travel and result in a big time waste.
LOLA provides a tool which permits musicians to perform many more rehearsals before a concert, for example,
giving them much more time to refine the performance before they join together for the event; they can engage
in MasterClasses teaching students around the world even when they are located in distant sites, including
the ability to perform together with the student during the lesson, and enabling many more students to
participate without the need of travel; they can take part in recording sessions without the need to travel
to the recording studio, etc.
But LOLA provides also the ability to perform real concerts for the public, with distributed performers,
and distributed audience, too. It thus opens a new fully unexplored performance scenario, with new challenges
and new opportunities.
LOLA is a project developed by Conservatorio di Musica Giuseppe Tartini from Trieste (Italy) in collaboration
with GARR, the Italian Research and Academic Network, and was conceived in 2005 after a demonstration of the
first intercontinental viola MasterClass between the GARR National User’s Conference in Pisa (Italy), and
the New World Symphony music academy in Miami (USA).
The project research and development team is currently composed by Stefano Bonetti (project coordination, system design and software engineering) from Conservatory of music G.Tartini and Claudio Allocchio (network engineering and testing) from GARR.
LoLa website: lola.conts.it
